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| Subject: | Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought |  |
| Date: | Jun 2, 2008 |
| From: | Al Bowie | |
Don't rough it up too much. The actaul surface of the turret cast was reasonable smooth, sort of like an iced cake. It definately isn't a rough casting on the examples I climbed all over. If you smooth out the angles of the angles with a bit of sandpaer or wet and dry plus fix the gun trunnion its pretty accurate (other than the tracks and Bogies).
A lot of reviewers jumped on the bandwagon and slammed the hull angle and the "Missing" rivet without actually checking first and the turret shape , height etc. The "Missing" Rivet exists in some manufacturers hull and the angles were fine to begin with. I suppose that means the Legends Hull is off as it differs from Academies.
Academy deserved to be slammed for releasing this with the Bogies as a known fault and to a lesser degree the tracks but the only real fault was the gun trunnion which is one for purists but is a major fault.
Of note regarding the turret is that I photographed two Grants side by side and BOTH turrets differed slightly from each other.
A very nice Grant can be built from this using basic modelling skills and the spare bogey face from the M7 Kit plus AM or DML WE 210 track.
Cheers
Al |
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 | Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Charlie Duckworth - May 31, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Peter Rasmussen - May 31, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Alan McNeilly - Jun 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Al Bowie - Jun 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Robert Gregory - Jun 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Al Bowie - Jun 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Alan McNeilly - Jun 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Gunners periscope? - David Nickels - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers periscope - Al Bowie - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Bojan Stula - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Academy Grant - not as inaccurate as I thought - Alan McNeilly - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . I know I'll be labeled a heretic but.... - Matt Roberts - Jun 4, 2008 |
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